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CNN's Brianna Keilar to Hillary beat

By Dylan Byers

02/05/14 09:34 AM EST

CNN has promoted White House correspondent Brianna Keilar to senior political correspondent, serving as the lead reporter covering Hillary Clinton and the Democratic field of 2016 presidential contenders.

Keilar's new assignment, which was first announced in Wednesday's POLITICO Playbook, will begin in March. She also will serve as the network's primary fill-in anchor for 'The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.'

CNN is only the latest news organization to wholly or partly dedicate one of its reporters to the Hillary 2016 beat. The New York Times's Amy Chozick, POLITICO's Maggie Haberman, Bloomberg News's Jonathan Allen, BuzzFeed' s Ruby Cramer and The Washington Post's Phil Rucker are all monitoring what Post editors recently described as "the Clinton portfolio."

Prior to the White House, Keilar served as a CNN congressional correspondent, where she earned the National Press Foundation's Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress.